Do you think there's any way you'd release the pool code as open source on GitHub so that we can all see how our favourite thing for all those years actually worked?

I do not currently have plans to distribute the code used for the site or the backend. The frontend relies specifically on BTC Guild's DB schema, which is not remotely close to what any other pool software uses. The backend is almost entirely uncommented spaghetti code. Possibly down the road I will make a pass through it to comment and clean it up and open source it. However, I wouldn't recommend it simply because it would be unsupported, whereas other options (ckpool/eloipool) still have active developers/support.

Would you sell the code for the website? Or is there no offer for that sale?

There might be some proprietary code but it might be nice for someone who wants to run their own pool with "out of the box" software. I've never tried to run my own pool but if I did, I'm fond of the layout where your worker is your payout address.

I do not currently have plans to distribute the code used for the site or the backend. The frontend relies specifically on BTC Guild's DB schema, which is not remotely close to what any other pool software uses. The backend is almost entirely uncommented spaghetti code. Possibly down the road I will make a pass through it to comment and clean it up and open source it. However, I wouldn't recommend it simply because it would be unsupported, whereas other options (ckpool/eloipool) still have active developers/support.

I've never been happy with Python and consider Eloipool mostly a failure in terms of language choice (and would ideally be designed very differently post-getwork era).Without having seen your code, I can't commit - but I wouldn't rule out possibly maintaining it instead of Eloipool.

...I do not currently have plans to distribute the code used for the site or the backend. The frontend relies specifically on BTC Guild's DB schema, which is not remotely close to what any other pool software uses. The backend is almost entirely uncommented spaghetti code. Possibly down the road I will make a pass through it to comment and clean it up and open source it. However, I wouldn't recommend it simply because it would be unsupported, whereas other options (ckpool/eloipool) still have active developers/support.

I'd suggest use ckpool - much faster block changes - much lower stale work rates - and doesn't use empty blocks to fail at speeding up block changes.

Pool: https://kano.is Here on Bitcointalk: Forum BTC: 1KanoPb8cKYqNrswjaA8cRDk4FAS9eDMLUFreeNode IRC: irc.freenode.net channel #kano.isMajority developer of the ckpool codeHelp keep Bitcoin secure by mining on pools with full block verification on all blocks - and NO empty blocks!

All other things being equal, and a bit of a derail. But... Why the HELL is eleuthria's trust rating so low? Mine is higher, and I mostly just talk.

The trust system seems really arbitrary.

Eleuthria has a trust rating visible to me of 10: -0 / +1

Yours is all 0's.

So what does that mean?

yeah, the system is fubar. I just wish that the default people paid more attention... Or it was abolished altogether. On my side it was showing him at 5, and me at 30. Mine probably shouldn't be anywhere near that high, and his should have at least a couple more zeroes.

eleuthria, I haven't mined at your pool since a bank of HD5970s could make you a lot of coin but when I heard you were closing I felt compelled to stop by and say thanks. You ran the most honest pool I used (I got screwed by a couple of them) and were always available to help with problems. Bitcoin needs more people like you. Best of luck with your future endeavors.

I have been mining here for as long as I can remember mining... sad to see it go but as it has been said in this thread many times before by myself and others... eleuthria is a stand up guy and has worked his ass off for us, this pool, and the bitcoin community, good luck in all your future endeavors sir!